I’ve been looking for web services to use at plasq for certain tasks. Thought I should share as they will be handy for other small business’.

Lining up meetings

• diarised.com


• meetwithapproval.com


• doodle.ch


• timeanddate.com meeting planner – We have often used this the last year. Am yet to try the others.

Sending out mailing lists

• newsberry.com


• campaignmonitor.com – Great! we use this, as do twitter and apple for example.


• letterpop.com


• primomailer.com


• zookoda.com

Surveys

• wufoo.com – Does much more than just surveys though


• surveymonkey.com – Needs some design help, but seems feature-full and reliable

Free or inexpensive stock photos and art

• imageafter.com


• sxc.hu


• iStockphoto.com


• Flickr.com – Creative commons

If you have other suggestions, please leave them in the comments.

There was a article The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need on digg a few months back for more.

Update: Some tools here for small biz

I was at WWDC! .... and still in Australia.

Keith too. Thumbs up from him.

Thanks Matthew Tonkin for hooking us up

Matt held up his Macbook Pro so we could see around.

We waved to people standing in line, and a couple people waved back!... ahhhh, technology!

This was going around a few months ago but I forgot to post it. Very cool.

Comic Life on Flickr

Brand new feature it seems, Google SMS. It hasn’t even made a dent in google itself yet. ie, searching for “google sms” doesn’t show much anything on the first page.

I tried it from Australia but it doesn’t seem to work yet. I tried 46645 and +146645.

Shifting subjects, This is my first post from Tasmania… and I go back to Melbourne today I had a good time. Was here for my Mums 50th Birthday. She had a Rock ‘n’ Roll dance party at which I got rather drunk, chatted to anyone and bumped a lady in the face whilst doing I can’t remember what. Atleast I still took plenty of photos with our new digital camera (more about that later). Was a good time to test it in low light.

Which OS are You?

Lucidturtle.com has gone live!

I did a free 10 minute logo for another studio from San Francisco. It’s not great but I’m happy with it per the time that went into it . Its on their site here: http://www.sfrecording.com/
(Didn’t do the site though). I’ll put the image here too:

Also did a simple 40 minute UI for a simple AudioUnit effect by Steve Duda. He hasn’t done the UI stuff for it yet so its not yet in use but here is a sneaky:
Olive version:

Orange version:

I’m feeling good. I’m winning the fight against procrastination

Now onto that host UI

Saw this URL on the back window of a car yesterday and thought I would look it up. well its for a heavy rock band but you gotta check out the singers hair! wow!

My girlfriend has her own domain now! jemgirl.com. Just a logotype there at the moment but it will be updated soon with lots of content relating to the 80’s cartoon, Jem and the Holograms(remember that?) as well as her own music projects, other dolls, stories, photos and stuff about clothes that she makes.

Trash80 will be releasing a new EP in 5 days or so and launching his new site! Both are awesome! Jemgirl and I wrote lyrics for 2 of the songs; Jemgirl the vocals for those with me doing a tiny backing vocal on one. The EP will be entitled, Hologram. An apt tie in there with jemgirl, but really, its a great name indicative of the 80’s

We bought a BBQ thingie yesterday… its like a metal basket on a stand and a metal plate that sits on top. Here’s a pic:

The cooking plate is leaning against the basket. The silver wire handle, i added so the plate can be lifted on and off more easily.
update: duh, this isn’t a bbq, but an out doors heater. burn coals and wood I reckon

Built a new PC last week. Athlon 2700+ with a gig of ram. It was kinda a major overhaul of my previous PC, i suppose, i kept the same drives (hard/floppy/CDRW/DVD-Rom) but the rest is new. the new case rocks. see here:

Damn fast too. Loving it! I was surprised in the difference in speed with 1 gig compared to 512 meg of ram too. Photoshop is like butter now and logic is quicker too, especially when loading big sound banks. Can finally work on music without feeling constrained all the time like I was on my previous 700mhz PC and my Titanium powerbook 500mhz which are roughly the same speed.

Super greg! Love this guy.. comical genius. I first saw it about 2 years ago but it had been around long before that. Google for some other stuff if ya interested. its worth it.

Zebra 1.0 (final) is released! The response to it has been great. Very happy.

oh yeah, and I want to buy some thongs… yeah… thongs are cool. thongs and pants; the ultimate in fashion.
(this line would be quite weird for non australians… thongs and pants seem to have a different meaning here